Alpha Blake's Broken Luna
A window blows out somewhere above us with a very satisfying crash.
“Xander?” Rose calls, voice betraying nothing.
“On your line,” Xander says, too steady to be anything but moving. “Thirty seconds. Don’t die.”
“Working on it,” she says, deadpan, and then a red-eye clips her shoulder and she sighs like she’s annoyed at a fly. Rose doesn’t waste anger, she banks it and then spends it like an exact change. Four men later and the bank is still full.
I take three more on my own, blood turning slick under my palm, Dawn already knitting what she can around the knife’s bite, muttering about foolish and mate and small heartbeat, which makes me angrier and better at everything I’m doing.
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